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pressor
I
noun
any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
Syn: ↑vasoconstrictor, ↑vasoconstrictive
Hypernyms: ↑agent
Hyponyms:
adrenergic, ↑adrenergic drug, ↑angiotensin, ↑angiotonin, ↑Hypertensin, ↑lypressin, ↑naphazoline, ↑Privine, ↑Sudafed, ↑vasopressor, ↑coldness, ↑cold, ↑low temperature, ↑frigidity, ↑frigidness, ↑noradrenaline, ↑norepinephrine, ↑epinephrine, ↑epinephrin, ↑adrenaline, ↑Adrenalin, ↑vasopressin, ↑antidiuretic hormone, ↑ADH, ↑Pitressin, ↑nicotine
II
adjective
increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure
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pressor reflexes

Pertains to noun: ↑blood pressure
Topics: ↑physiology

Useful english dictionary. 2012.